Education: Better Patter

Purdue Professor Everett Lowell Kelly
knew how to fly and how to teach (clinical psychology). He also knew
that not every good flyer is a good flight instructor. This knowledge
served him well when the Civil Aeronautics Administration asked him to
direct a project for working out a better technique for basic flight
instruction.

Practical-minded Professor Kelly began on the ground. He used an
electrical inter phone and radio transmitter to listen to scores of
teacher-pupil conversations in the air. He analyzed the results and
found no instruction "which might be said to...